STUART RAMSON/AP PHOTOAlexander McQueen, the British designer favored by Hollywood's more daring leading ladies, was found dead today. He designed for Sarah Jessica Parker, with whom he attended the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006.Alexander McQueen, the bad boy British designer whose frocks were favored by Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and a slew of edgy fashionistas, was found dead in his London home this morning, People reports.

"At this stage it is inappropriate to comment on this tragic news beyond saying that we are devastated and are sharing a sense of shock and grief with Lee's family," says a statement put out by the Alexander McQueen label. (Lee Alexander McQueen was the designer's full name.) "Lee's family has asked for privacy in order to come to terms with this terrible news and we hope the media will respect this."

Scotland Yard reports that the death is being treated as "non-suspicious at this time." The Daily Mail in Britain was quick to report that McQueen committed suicide by hanging.

McQueen's death comes days after the death of his mother, and weeks before he was set to show at Paris Fashion Week. His contemporary line, McQ, was scheduled to show today at New York Fashion Week, but it has been canceled.

"Lee McQueen influenced a whole generation of designers. His brilliant imagination knew no bounds as he conjured up collection after collection of extraordinary designs," British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman says in the Daily Mail. "At one level he was a master of the fantastic, creating astounding fashion shows that mixed design, technology and performance and on another he was a modern-day genius whose gothic aesthetic was adopted by women the world over. His death is the hugest loss to anyone who knew him and for very many who didn't."